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This page is a collection of possible future content, crudely sorted by status.

1. Waiting to have the Webpage written

I am up to date with all yarns which have been read in terms of providing a review and information, although I hope to improve the following with additional material - which updates may occur in advance of the next full site revision:

2. Waiting to be read

The following titles are waiting to be read and added to these pages:

Cecil Biffin Not Even A Fig Leaf (1959?) Subtitled "The Adventures Of A Reluctant Nudist", this has been described as "sexy smut pulp".

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Petra Christian The Sexploiters (1973) "Sally's investigations led her to a nudist colony run by a weird family called Hhancus; a pornography shop in Soho; and industrial espionage".

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Stephen Clarke Merde Actually (2005) "A year after arriving in France, Englishman Paul West, is still struggling with some fundamental questions. . . . Why are there no public health warnings on French nudist beaches?".

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Henry Cobbold Wearing a Smile (2001), illustrated by Tim Major, watercoloured by Rosina Lytton. "A romantic comedy about nudity".

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Louise Dardanelle World Without Raiment (1943) Said to be the story where "an apocolyptic event sends refugees in search of safety. One group finds nudists who have been at peace."

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Elmer Davis and Guy Holt Bare Living (1933) This is apparently the story in which "a young stockbrokerage employee discovers criminal activity by his boss and flees with the evidence. His car breaks down behind a nudist camp and he finds himself staying."

Patrick Dennis (pen-name of Edward Everett Tanner III) Auntie Mame (1955) and Around The World With Auntie Mame (1958) "at the heart of Mame's character is a dramatic, and very American, quality: the urge to continually reinvent oneself. ... She was anti-establishment, anti-bourgeois, anti-racist, anti-bad taste, and anti-pretension. She was also pro-youth, pro-sex, pro-tolerance, pro-nudity, and pro-drugs (though her drug of choice was gin)." - with a nudist as one of her circle of friends.

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John Doan Life-One (2003) An astronaut crashlands on planet Life-One, whose inhabitants "reproduce asexually, have no notion of sex, and have no notion of there being anything wrong or unusual about public nudity"

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Anthony Gibbs The New Crusade (1934) "A millionaire feels life has passed him by so he hires people to live the new nudist life style and promote it worldwide so he can observe."

My copy has no dustjacket, and I would much appreciate a scan of one.

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Orrie Hitt Nudist Camp (1957) "A scathing novel of life and love amongst the nudists"

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Bob Hymer Sarty Pants Snake and the Chinese Button Knot (1978) "Very cute story of a snake praticing yoga in a nudist colony."

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Edward Kiernan God's Hitchhiker (1955) Said to be "A long venture in search of tranquility - guess where it is found?"

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John S Lloyd Leaving Flat Iron Creek (1999) "Set in the 1920s ... Seth Newman ... leaves home to join a travelling circus. He also meets up with some German nudists who share his enthusiasm for skinny-dipping"

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Eric James Miller The Metaphysics of Nudity (1996) "a funny, thought-provoking exploration of the relationship between nudity and sexual attraction"

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E. R. Punshon Death Among the Sunbathers (1934) Murder mystery from a popular writer, involving a group of sunbathers who favour all-over tans

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William L Rohde Murder on the Line (1951), reprinted as High Red for Dead (1956) "Murder, more murder and a runaway redhead in a nudist camp"

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Dr Seuss The Seven Lady Godivas (1939) "The true facts concerning history's barest family."

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Feodor Sologub The Created Legend (1914) "The main story lines are set in Russia on the eve of the revolution of 1905 and in a fictious Mediterranean kingdom." Some scenes involve social nudity.

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Stephen Spender The Temple (1988) "the experiences of a twenty-year-old Oxford poet on vacation in Hamburg, who then travels along the Rhine; and his spontaneous response to ... naturism, ... cult of the naked body..."

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Harold Stephens The Tower and the River (1998) "The next morning, in their red and yellow jeep, Grant and Danielle drove to the nudist camp on the Marne River."

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William Vaneer Scandals at a Nudist Colony (1953) "Sensational fiction".

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Stuart Ward Body Freedom Day (2004) "The book's premise is everyone is a nudist at heart. A brief history of nudism, naturism, dress and recent trends segues into near-future fantasy of an annual running event which triggers a quantum leap in social nudity and positive body acceptance.".

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3. Waiting to be acquired

The following titles are waiting to be acquired or borrowed then read:

Jay Dubya Frat Brats, A 60s Novel (2004) "Frat Brats completes the adult trilogy that was begun by Black Leather and Blue Denim. . . . J.W. and his fellow Lambdas manage to survive ... a nudist colony"

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Lucy Ellmann Doctors and Nurses (2006) "Jen's wdding day humiliation is beyond anything even she could have imagined. She hops on the first train north, where she happens to meet a naked rambler."

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Louise Lang Nudists Die Too (2006) "Nudists Die Too is a murder mystery set mostly inside a nudist resort. Our sunbathing sleuth Doreen and her husband Dom live there part time because he is the manager."

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Byron & Kay McAllister Undercover Nudist (2005) "Tim is coming-of-age in this amusing tale that will deliver a chuckle as well as suspense and a real puzzler."

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Gladys Mitchell Printer's Error (1939) Yet another crime thriller: "A large part of the book concerns Mrs. Bradley's attempts to flush out a suspect from a nudist colony"

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Louis-Charles Royer Let's Go Naked (1932) US translation of Royer's non-fictional account of French naturism. Royer's main published work was erotic fiction, and there may be some fiction in here too.

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Suggestions for additional material to be included in any section of Yarns Without Threads are most welcome, as are your own views and reviews. Please email these to me.

Last updated 2006 April 19.
 
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Tim Forcer, except for descriptive material in quotes copyright various Webpage authors, senders of private emails and Boyd Bechtel

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